MEPS Study: Why Does Place Matter

MEPS 研究：为什么地点很重要

• 批准号: 8487443
• 负责人: Darrell J. Gaskin
• 金额: $ 7.42万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8487443
• 关键词: American Medical Association; Cardiac; Caring; Censuses; Communities; Data; Diabetes Mellitus; Expenditure; Health; Healthcare; Life; Literature; Medical; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Minority; Persons; Physicians; Research; Services; Solutions; Surveys; health care service utilization; health disparity; racial and ethnic; segregation

Why Does Place Matter? - The association between residential segregation and racial disparities in health is well documented. Our prior research at the HCHDS extended the research literature by finding an association between residential segregation and healthcare utilization. Using data from the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we found that persons living in minority communities had less access to physician care, and used fewer physician, non-physician, mental health, cardiac and diabetes services compared to persons living in majority white communities. However, beyond the racial and ethnic composition of communities little is known about the mechanisms that govern these associations. This project seeks to describe the relationship between

为什么地点很重要？- 居住隔离与健康方面的种族差异之间的联系有充分的文献记载。我们之前在HCHDS的研究通过发现居住隔离和医疗保健利用之间的关联扩展了研究文献。使用2006年医疗支出小组调查的数据，我们发现，与生活在大多数白色社区的人相比，生活在少数民族社区的人获得医生护理的机会较少，并且使用较少的医生，非医生，心理健康，心脏和糖尿病服务。然而，除了社区的种族和族裔构成之外，人们对管理这些协会的机制知之甚少。本项目旨在描述